Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freddy Bigelow's record breaking win in the University ski race last Sunday, points to a potent team for this season. Only Wendell M. Hastings and Henry S. Parker, Jr. are gone through graduation, and the present contenders have certainly not lost their touch...
Last week in Brussels the Court issued a peculiar denial which did not touch upon King Leopold but denied that "Belgium" had been "commissioned" by the Great Powers to seek a peaceful Italo-Ethiopian settlement-i. e. the denial covered something which had never been asserted...
...picture Dix put a touch of humor. Five men stand with an amazing indifference and nonchalance before a savage looking officer who has evidently done his best to call them to attention. They are of all sizes and shapes, and their ragged uniforms either hang off them limply or are far too small. But even this humor has a grim side, for the faces of the soldiers plainly show evidence of their privations and sufferings...
Doubtless the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not be held to this exact meaning of his words, but even in the loosest sense he clearly meant that the United Kingdom will not risk the Italian attack which oil sanctions might touch off unless a preponderance of other Great Powers pledge themselves to spring instantly to the armed aid of Britannia at her very first cry of "Help...
...body moisture out. We need road surfaces that will last at least a century and roofs that will never leak. We need a superconductor for electricity. We need artificial teeth that are as good as natural, . . . paper as permanent as parchment, fabrics and dyes that wind and sun cannot touch, a spring metal that will not fail with fatigue and rubber that will last a century. We need a satisfactory anesthetic for childbirth...